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  • Published: 25 October 2018
  • ISBN: 9781787534124
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 7 hr 30 min
  • Narrators: Sophie Thompson, Jonathan Keeble, Mark Heap, Robert Daws
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Higher: The Complete Series 1-4

A BBC Radio 4 comedy




A BBC comedy drama set in the world of a \"pile 'em high university\".

A BBC comedy drama set in the world of a \"pile 'em high university\". Karen Poynter is the new head of the Geography Department - renamed Geographical Tourism - at Hayborough University, which is definitely not part of the elite Russell Group of top universities. Ranked 132nd in the UK academic league table; if you have a pulse, you can have a degree.

This is the high energy farce of the breeze block and grotty cafeteria, with all the endless meetings, the backstabbings and the sheer panic of a university setting. In an era of increasing fees and cutbacks, this satire has become all the more acute.

Starring Sophie Thomson (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt 1, Coronation Street) as Karen, with Jonathan Keeble (War and Peace) as the venal Dean.

Episode list:
Pilot show
Partners
Inspection
The Price of Partnership
Restructure
Rebrand, Relaunch
Clearing
Privatisation, the Final Battle
Year of the Rat
Creative Solutions

  • Published: 25 October 2018
  • ISBN: 9781787534124
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 7 hr 30 min
  • Narrators: Sophie Thompson, Jonathan Keeble, Mark Heap, Robert Daws
Categories: